Party guests poison themselves in a bar with a giant champagne bottle: a man dies
Created: 02/14/2022, 09:41 am
By: Cornelia Schramm
A man died after visiting a restaurant in Weiden.
The old town was closed for hours.
Police officers are investigating and looking for witnesses.
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A man crawled towards the toilet, foaming at the mouth.
Then he died horribly of an ecstasy overdose, others are in the hospital with severe poisoning.
A special commission of the Kripo determined.
Weiden in der Oberpfalz
– After a visit to an Italian restaurant in Weiden, a 52-year-old man died.
"According to preliminary findings, there is a suspicion that eight people in the bar drank a contaminated drink, which led to symptoms of poisoning," says Andrea Meier, spokeswoman for the police headquarters in Upper Palatinate.
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, it is already clear what was in the huge champagne bottle: a large amount of ecstasy.
So much so that the crystalline party drug turned champagne pink and even a few sips from that champagne bottle were deadly.
Around 1:30 p.m., the emergency services received the call.
"Some were lying on the ground and a few were having seizures when officers arrived," says Meier.
The eight injured came to surrounding hospitals in Regensburg, Amberg and Tirschenreuth.
In one of them, a 52-year-old from the Schwandorf district died during the night.
The group had shared a magnum bottle of champagne in the Italian restaurant on Unteren Markt, as reported by "Der Neue Tag".
At the same time, a television program is said to have run in the restaurant, in which a man from Regensburg, who was known to the regulars, took part.
According to the newspaper, the bottle was sealed correctly and bought the day before.
Weiden: Group of friends drinks from a magnum bottle – a man dies
"Currently there is no evidence that something was intentionally filled into the bottle in the restaurant," says Meier.
After the first sip, however, the guests, between 33 and 52 years old, are said to have felt nauseous, according to "Der Neue Tag".
In addition, the drink was not transparent, but discolored.
The Weiden Criminal Police Inspectorate has set up the special “Market” commission to clarify the matter and is hoping for tips from witnesses.
"One person has already been discharged from the hospital," says Meier.
"The lives of the others are no longer in danger."
The Soko will now have to clarify how the large amount of the drug could have gotten into the champagne.
The bottle was not bought by partygoers until the same day.
The police's most likely theory is therefore that smugglers dissolved the drug in the champagne in order to later filter it out and sell it.
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